Sara Cathcart, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Warwick, RINPI 1649622598
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,559 of the $3,374 with a category attached, or 75.8%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Kairos Surgical Inc at 24.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,825 and has fallen 88.7% since, to $207 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for foot & ankle surgery clinicians in RI, where the typical reported total is $3,840.
Across 54 payments — averaging $62.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Kairos Surgical Inc$835
- Smith+Nephew$706
- Stryker$294
- Medtronic$263
- Bioventus LLC$234
- Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC$191
- plus $850 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,55976%
- Education$81524%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Kairos Surgical Inc | 2 | $835 |
| Smith+Nephew | 15 | $706 |
| Stryker | 3 | $294 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 4 | $263 |
| Bioventus LLC | 5 | $234 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 3 | $191 |
| Acumed LLC | 3 | $132 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 2 | $114 |
| Osteomed LLC | 2 | $113 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $109 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $92 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $84 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $72 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 1 | $14 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- Stravix$346
- GRAFIX PL$230
- OsteoMed$201
- PROstep$150
- PROPHECY$150
- Panta 2$149
- SPATIAL FRAME$149
- OFIRMEV$125
- Grafix$125
- STRAVIX PL$125
- Grafix PRIME$116
- Grafix CORE$116
- Grafix XC$116
- Grafix PL PRIME$116
- VenaSeal$114
- HOFFMANN$109
- ANCHORAGE$109
- Exogen$108
- ACUMED$101
How this compares
$3,374 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 58 foot & ankle surgery providers in Rhode Island.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Ciclopirox | 12 | $529 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 16 | $362 |
| Meloxicam | 28 | $157 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Warwick
- Anthony MechrefeWarwick$92K
- Jason TartaglioneWarwick$21K
- Michelle GarciaWarwick$5K
- Lee TiberiWarwick$4K
- Tammy VandineWarwick$3K
- Jason MalletteWarwick$3K
- Alexander TrottierWarwick$3K
- Wooyoung ChunWarwick$3K
- Stephen RogersWarwick$2K
- April WongWarwick$2K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.